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The Diplomat-in-Chief Hits a National Security Trifecta
Joe Cirincione, Defense One
January 20, 2016
If Barack Obama were a Republican, Congress would have already named an airport after him.
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Netanyahu Hated The Iran Deal. Now He's Taking Credit For It.
Julie Norman, Huffington Post
January 19, 2016
Back in September 2015, two months after the historic Iranian nuclear deal wasfinally struck, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in The Atlantic that the international agreement to restrain Iran's nuclear program "should count as the crowning diplomatic achievement of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu." Counter-intuitive, yes - but also prescient.
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For Iran, A Nuclear Option More Trouble Than It Was Worth
Siegfried S. Hecker, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
On Saturday, the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that Iran had met its initial nuclear rollback obligations under the country's historic agreement with six world powers. This triggered long-sought sanctions relief, the chief reason the country had accepted the onerous restrictions and intrusive inspections prescribed by the nuclear deal.
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View from the Inside: Prince Turki al-Faisal on Saudi Arabia, Nuclear Energy and Weapons, and Middle East Politics
Dan Drollette, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Turki al-Faisal has long had access to some of the innermost circles of power in Saudi Arabia. In this interview, al-Faisal talks with the Bulletin's Dan Drollette Jr. about the Saudi view of the Iran agreement, nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, and the possibility of Saudi Arabia becoming a net energy importer in the coming decades - and what the country wants to do to counter that prospect.
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The Iran Nuclear Agreement: Implementation Day for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
DipNote, U.S. State Department
During remarks in Vienna, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry outlined the historic nature of reaching "Implementation Day" and lifting multilateral and national economic and financial sanctions related to Iran's nuclear program.
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North Korea and Iran, a Tale of Two Nuclear Programs
After rolling back sanctions against Iran, the US is moving to impose tougher measures against North Korea. But pressuring Pyongyang to scale back its nuclear program will likely prove more difficult.
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Chun Yungwoo, Asian Institute for Policy Studies
January 7, 2016
North Korea conducted a nuclear test on January 6, 2016. It claimed to have tested a hydrogen bomb. Senior Advisor Chun Yungwoo, Vice President Choi Kang, Senior Research Fellow Park Jiyoung, and Research Fellow Go Myong-hyun of the Asian Institute for Policy Studies sat down for an urgent discussion.
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The Other Dangers from That North Korean Nuke Test
Victor Gilinsky and Henry Sokolski, Wall Street Journal
January 18, 2016
Scoffing at Pyongyang's hydrogen-weapons claims ignored new, dangerous potential developments. There are some hints about the test's significance for proliferation that the press, in its eagerness to dismiss North Korea's claim that it detonated a hydrogen weapon, seems to have missed.
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ARMS CONTROL AND NONPROLIFERATION
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Michael Krepon, Arms Control Wonk
January 20, 2016
Is arms racing now picking up speed again? We still use the terminology of arms racing out of habit, just as we talk about arms control when we now mean arms reduction. A careful look suggests change as well as familiar behaviors.
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Barack Obama's administration, which began with a vision to get rid of nuclear weapons, has a trillion-dollar plan to renew them.
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Elisabeth Eaves, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Bulletin contributing editor Elisabeth Eaves interviewed former US Senator Sam Nunn, who is co-chair of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and perhaps most famous as co-architect of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Program.
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Physicists Achieve Record-High Efficiency in Key Nuclear Fusion Process
Ben Crew, Science Alert
January 19, 2016
For the first time, an international team of scientists has figured out how to visualise energy dispersal in a process known as fast ignition - one of the most promising approaches we have to achieving controlled nuclear fusion.
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